Buhari Wades Into Plateau Killings

President Muhammadu Buhari has enjoined the security agencies to immediately put a stop to the resumed killings of innocent people in Plateau state.

President Muhammadu Buhari is saddened
by the reported killings of at least 20 people in Plateau state.

This was contained in a statement
by the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba
Shehu, in Abuja on Monday.

He said that the President had
instructed “the military and the police to not only bring the violence to an
instant end, but to draw up a plan to ensure that there are no further attacks
and reprisal attacks by one group against the other’’.

He also commiserated with the
governor and people of Plateau and with those who lost their loved ones,
friends and family.

According to Shehu, the President
was committed to the sanctity of Nigeria’s unity and enjoined Nigerians to live
together in peace and harmony.

The Plateau government on Friday
imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on Bassa Local Government as part of measures to
curtail the midnight attacks, which has been described as a reprisal attacks by
some herdsmen.

According to the Plateau Police
Command, scores of people were killed in the attacks that started three weeks
ago, with Ncha village recording 26 deaths in the first major attack.

Further attacks took place in
Taegbe village where six people were killed and several others injured, while
Miango Jebu took its turn last week, losing five youths to the assailants.

Kpachudu, Nkiedonwhron and
Nzhwerivo villages were also attacked at the weekend, with unconfirmed reports
indicating that scores were killed in their sleep.

Meanwhile, the Irigwe community in
Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau has called on the state government to
lift the dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed on the area following incessant midnight
attacks on its rural settlements.

Mr Sunday Abdu, National President,
Irigwe Community Development Association, made the call at a press briefing on
Monday in Jos.